May I know what is the meaning "Later Head"?

[learning.language]

hi..

does anyone know what is the other simple word for "later head"?
for example : He is later head of the institute

can i replace it with...
He is the next head of the institute?

Thankz anyway

[Yankee]

Hi learning.language

I'd say you are parsing the words in the sentence incorrectly. You could reword it this way:
Later he is head of the institute.

It sounds as though you are reading a list of someone's jobs. In other words, 'first he is A, second he is B, then he is C, later he is D'.

'Later he is D' basically means 'he is D after he is C'.
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[learning.language]

Hi sis Amy (Yankee)

but how about this "later head" in this sentences? :

They were led by Morton Abramowitz (former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Thailand, then President of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace), Mark Malloch Brown (later head of the UNDP, Deputy Secretary-General of the UN and UK Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN), and its first Chairman, Senator George Mitchell.

Is this mean :
Mark Malloch Brown is a head of UNDP after he is a leader of crisis group?

Thank u

[Yankee]

Hi learning.language

What the word later means to me in that sentence is that Mark Malloch Brown became the head of the UNDP after the time/event that is being written about in the sentence.
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